Nerine 2008

[Alberto]

Hans, even flowering sized the bulbs are small, just up to 2 cm large.

[Hans J]

  Alberto ,

thank you for this information ...there is hope

[johnw]

If Stephanie is a white bowdenii (did I get you right Mark?) then it is something to prize.

I have never seen a white bowdenii for sale in North America.

I see Broadleigh lists a 'Marnie Rogerson' which looks a very nice soft pink.  I wonder if it too is a bowdenii?

http://www.broadleighbulbs.co.uk/images/spring/miscnp/nerinemarnier.jpg

A chilly +8C and drizzling here.

johnw

[Tony Willis]

My 'Stephanie' is just N. bowdenii 

Mark

I do not understand your post. Are you saying your 'Stephanie' is wrong or mine is just a white bowdenii?

[Paul T]

Alberto,

I find your Nerine pudica fascinating..... same colour and markings as mine, but mine never opens out flat like that..... I've always thought that N. pudica remains tubular, or has semi-fused petals.  Mine does this consistently year after year, so obviously the clone we have here (The only versions of this species I have seen here all look like this) is malformed (but if so I most definitely like it!  ).  I was surprised to see yours the shape it is........ with exactly the colours of mine.  Does yours ever set seed?  If so and you have any spare I would be very interested in trying it to see whether it is something in the conditions here that make the flowers not open properly, or whether it is genetic.  Mine has very rarely set any seed at all, but my recollection is that I have seedlings from a friend's plant that flower in exactly the same form as her and my parent plants.  Very strange!?

[Alberto]

Paul, I am sorry but my plants have never set seeds. Reading you it raised a doubt, so I compared my flowers with the ones pictured on the book by Graham Duncan, Grow Nerines: they are the same as mine.
Now I have N. pudica from another source, but they have not flowered until now, I'll let you know how they will be.
Ciao
Alberto

[mark smyth]

The bulbs in my packet of 'Stephanie' look like they are bowdenii

[mark smyth]

Here's a couple from my collection of N. sarniensis. They are doing very bad this year with an obvious lack of flowers probably as a result of the poor summer this year
'Alba' brought inside for a photo
'Alba' photographed outside in the green house
'Atlanta'

[pehe]

This should be Stephanie

[mark smyth]

Poul this is my 'Stephanie'

[mark smyth]

Here's a few more sarniensis from the collection

'Amethyst Delight' - 3 photos
'Nan' - two different backgrounds
'Quest' - my camera hates this plant for some reason. 18 photos but only 1 just OK to show

[pehe]

Poul this is my 'Stephanie'

Mark,
Isn't that a quite dark Stephanie, or have you used some kind of filter on your camera

Poul

[mark smyth]

Poul it's wrong. The bulbs in my packet of 'Stephanie' are N. bowdenii just proving that suppliers never run out of a bulb

[pehe]

Poul it's wrong. The bulbs in my packet of 'Stephanie' are N. bowdenii just proving that suppliers never run out of a bulb

Mark,

I knew, I was just joking. You take beautiful pictures!
By the way, some times it can be difficult to tell a joke (and be understand) in a forreign language, so please be patient with my way of expressing in English.

Poul

[Maggi Young]

I knew, I was just joking. You take beautiful pictures!
By the way, some times it can be difficult to tell a joke (and be understand) in a foreign language, so please be patient with my way of expressing in English.

Poul

Poul, I would not be too worried about expressing yourself in English.... believe me, we English Speakers can have PLENTY trouble understanding eachotherso we have great sympathy with you non-native speakers!!